Editing Headland, Alabama (section)

==History==
{{Unreferenced section|date=October 2022}}James Joshua Head (1839–1927) founded Headland in 1871 as "Head's Land". He patented land, plotted the town and built his home there. The Headland post office opened on October 10, 1871.

The Headland Public Square was laid off in 1871 by Head with a vision for a branch courthouse. Henry County voters decided in the 1879 and 1885 courthouse site elections not to locate a courthouse on the public square. Henry has been Alabama's only county with three courthouses at the same time.

Head sold Headland to Hosey C. Powell in 1879, who sold to Dr. Wyatt S. Oates in 1880. Head moved to [[Tampa, Florida]], in 1883 and later established [[Lake Magdalene, Florida]].

Headland incorporated in 1884 with 26 white and 4 Black petitioners. The railroad was built in 1893 along with the [[Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Depot (Headland, Alabama)|Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Depot]]. The depot was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Henry County, Alabama|National Register of Historic Places]] on September 4, 1980. It has since been disassembled.

Headland's [[Spirit of the American Doughboy|''The Spirit of the American Doughboy'']] statue was the first public statue in Henry County. It was erected on the square in 1926 as a tribute to the town's military dead. The square was paved in 1935.

As of the [[1960 United States census|1960 U.S. census]], Headland had grown into Henry County's largest city, narrowly edging out [[Abbeville, Alabama|Abbeville]], which had been the largest since Dothan was removed into [[Houston County, Alabama|Houston County]] in 1903. Headland lost that distinction to Abbeville again in 1970, but regained it in 1980 and has since solidified its hold. In 2000, it broke Dothan's then-Henry County 1900 record of 3,275 residents with 3,523 and added nearly 1,000 more by 2010.